If I’m not in my studio, you’ll find me out on the pre-dawn roads cycling or running with my wife. When chain, heart and mind roll at speed under the dim flood of street-lights, I often ruminate on the painting I will be doing after dawn, and all the paintings done before. It’s been seven years since I dropped out of Architecture school to nurture my talent in the arts, yet I’ve had the privilege of the continued trust of my wife and family to keep going.

When I first began my journey as a professional artist—spending 1.5 years in a dusty NYC studio drawing and painting 8-10 hours a day—my heroes were the obsessed, masochistic draftsmen/painters of the renaissance and the 19th-Century. I applied this indulgent pursuit of technical perfection into the Still-life genre; I tried to make it my own and I am still figuring out how to—I tried conceptualising compositions inspired by Asian visual artists and art philosophies. I tried not conceptualising, I felt my practice was more honest this way and I have always tried to retain a genuine uncalculating flow when I paint.

From 2019-2023, my still-lifes explored counter-culture ideas of unrestrained sentimentality, artistic pursuit in an age of cynicism, and emptiness as a consequence of generational diaspora. Thereafter, the story has become rather muddled; I am in the proccess of change.

If you would join me, whether by following me online or visiting an exhibition or two—I wouldn’t be able to offer you a captivating mantra why my paintings are meaningful, or collectible. I think the matrix of meaning that we intimately feel when we gaze of great works of art—it remains outside of language, and a good curator never tries to cross this threshold. She knows true art needn’t be justified with words.

This year I am trying to make my Still-lifes simpler, more tongue-in-cheek. I am also trying to paint larger figurative works, to express the (somewhat) contradictary disquiet I have about the human experience, despite being exceedingly lucky that all my loved ones support me.

Based in Singapore.

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